Allan

19Jan11

Brilliant, It looks fantastic, with great colour coded sets and art design, amazing cinematography (all his films have this detached theatrical approach, very rare use of the close up, lots of long takes tracking shots and great lighting), beautiful music (most of his films have Michael Nyman scores) and sound design and a very heavy emphasis on the fact that his films are indeed films, so expect a lot of artifice. He also has this incredible way of expressing ideas, with a lot of irony self-reference and as I said artifice, that's never vulgar and expositional at all there is always a sense of nothing being exactly as it seems. Very Godardian in a way but with more purpose it seems. He's always dealing with Patriarchy, Consumerism, Exploitation, Power Dynamics, Questioning of Meaning and Authority, Sex, Death etc there is so much depth there to dig into. Do let me know what you make of it. Also, I dig the Kahlo picture!